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Pros
Flexible scheduling, really cool students from all over the world, no micromanagement
Cons
Low pay that never increases, oversaturation of tutors- there are THOUSANDS, ratings system that's mysterious and deadly- if you go below a 98 percent rating your earnings tank, canned responses from admin staff, they always blame the tutors for every technical problem, zero benefits, no real regard for emergency situations. It is a very exploitative model.
Pros
Flexible, easy, rewarding, fun, interesting
Cons
Little pay, no benefits, students can be strange or rude
Pros
Students available from different time zones allows flexible work times Platform is easy to use helpful ai lesson summaries
Cons
Strict policies regarding lesson times Platform is sometimes unstable and connection intermittent No pay increases and no benefits
Pros
Flexible schedule – you teach anytime you want Easy to start – no strict teaching requirements Global students – meet people from different cultures
Cons
Low pay – compared to other ESL platforms No guaranteed students – income can be unstable No benefits – no government or health benefits
Pros
Beautiful Students. The only reason to work there. Flexible hours seemingly but if you don't commit to PH Priority Hours you don't get much work.
Cons
Tutors live in fear. You sink or swim based on student reviews but regular students don't review every lesson. Reviews are calculated by an algorithm which is supposed to take in account your previous 200 reviews. So 4 out of 5 twice in 200 reviews will sink your rating. Students choose emoji faces to grade students. Low ratings low student numbers and fewer privileges when booking lesson slots PH. No one tells you this they simply just aren't available. Indecent exposure happens far too frequently because its easy to get free trials. New email address new free trial. Flashers know this. There are blur filters supposed to protect you. They hide the person from you but not you from them. Still works for the perverts and unless Cambly start using cookies or two factor login which they could do easily, it won't stop. Its in Cambly's interest to keep the user numbers high. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. Pay is very low. Cambly never have a shortage of tutors and just about anyone with good English can teach. Which is why. Supposed to be native but it isn't. If you live in a low cost of living area you can survive on it, anywhere else its just a sociable side hustle that's like chat for pay. Fear culture. Turn up late, fail to log on. IT problems for even a minute and you get "oh dear" emails, "oh dear you missed your lesson start time so we are cancelling your ph bookings." Cambly doesn't always work properly but you get penalised. Students cancel all the time, turn up late etc. They have to pay Cambly in full. The tutor will only get $2 and lose 30 minutes wages. It's about $10 an hour so even less money. I worked ( logged on and waiting) on average 30 hours per week. I averaged $200 for those hours. Did as many PH as I could get. They started dumping tutors in certain areas due to labour laws. Cambly fail to meet the minimum wage criteria in many places but get around it by saying you're freelance. Freelancers shouldn't get punished by Cambly limiting work opportunities or even increasing benefits for those who toe the line. I worked for them for over a year 30 hours a week whilst recovering from an accident. It helped feed me. There has not been a pay rise in years. Bonuses are mostly tweaked so the house always wins. Cambly are using Ai tutors. Humans won't last long
Pros
-Can hide from students who make you uncomfortable -Flexible hours (as long as you don't have to cancel due to an emergency)
Cons
-Borderline unethical pay; you don't get paid 10 an hour, you get paid 22 cents a minute. They've refused to raise it for over 10 years -Students can no-show or late cancel and they just lose minutes. If a tutor does that they can get restricted or even fired -Absolutely broken website with servers from 1999 that they refuse to fix -The bugs. The bugs are unavoidable AND you can lose money from them -The fact that there are more and more students cancelling subscriptions, it's become a ghost town -Claiming tutors are independent contractors so they don't have to give them benefits, while being weirdly strict for no reason -Marketing the platform as a chill conversational site for tutors, but then advertising it as a site where you learn english from a certified, private teacher on the student side-- they don't even have requirements for tutors -Being lenient with students but strict with tutors -The rating system is arbitrary and also isn't clear in terms of feedback. You can get a rude student who will rate you poorly just because they had a bad day, and not due to how you actually taught. Please just teach on ANY platform besides cambly. It's funny, you don't even really TEACH here, you just talk to people. And I'm sure at your first impression that sounds like it's easy, but imagine that being your life 30 hours a week, even sometimes dealing with some of the most disrespectful and rude people you'll ever meet, It's more akin to a customer service job, except at least then you don't have to have your camera on the entire time. There's plenty of other platforms that let you get your foot in the door without sucking time, energy, AND money out of you.
Pros
It provides flexible working hours
Cons
Low pay No bonus No benefits
Pros
Good opportunities/career development Good benefits
Cons
Uncompetitive pay No room for advancement
Pros
Dynamic environment, flexible working hours
Cons
Low payments, no benefits, seasonal